Post Your "Budgetphile" Vinyl Setups!

Marantz 2225 reciever $22
Technics sl-1400 & at SL500 cartridge $10
EPI 100 $3.33
foams $6
Human Speakers new tweeters $108

Sounds nice

 

The best "Budgetphile" system I ever had was;
An Eico HF-81 amp (purchased for $1...stolen from me)
Pioneer PL-518 TT (purchased for $5...sold)
Dynaco A-25 speakers (purchased for $5...sold)

 

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Office system.

Marantz SR5300
U-Turn Orbit Custom. Acrylic platter, 2mRed
U-Turn Pluto
Edirol UA-25
Infinity Primus 150

 

Turntable:
Audio-Technica AT-LP120 Turntable, Technics SL1200 Rubber Mat

Cartridge:
Shure M97xE High-Performance Magnetic Phono Cartridge/Jico SAS Stylus

Pre Amplifier:
Pro-Ject Phono Box MM DC Phonograph Preamplifier

Amplification:
Yamaha RX-V371 AV Receiver

Speaker System:
Polk Audio TSi300 Floor-standing speakers, Yamaha YST-SW215 Sub-woofer.

 

JVC QL-A5 with Audio Technica VM540ML. The JVC loses nothing to a Technics 1200 series.

 

Budget......but a great sounding "classic rock" setup IMO

Turntable:
Pioneer PL-300 or Pioneer PL- 115D (labeled as turntable right of left through receiver)....Occasionally hookup a Technics LS-Q5 with AT92e as well

Cartridge:
Audio Technica - AT120E ( PL-300)....Ortofon Super OM20 (Pl 115D)

Pre Amplifier:
Pro-Ject Phono Box DC (x2)

Amplification:
Yamaha RX-A830 AV Receiver

Speaker System:
Vintage ESS AMT 1b (floor standing)

 

do you have a pic of these? i had a pair way back when and really liked them, they got stolen out if a share house i was living in at the time, wish i still had them

 

Redoing it:

Pioneer PL-L800 Linear Tracking Turntable ($100, used)
--Audio Technica AT440MLa ($180, new)

Little Bear T10 Tube Phono Preamp ($65)
--Voskhod 6N2P-EV Driver Tubes ($20, NOS matched trio)
--Reflector 6C4P-EV Rectifier Tube ($20, NOS)

Schiit Modi 2 DAC ($80, new B-stock)
Schiit SYS Switch ($50, new)
Schiit Wyrd USB Filter ($60, used)

Little Dot MKII Headphone Amp/Preamp ($110, used)
--Lorenz C3G Driver Tubes ($40, NOS matched pair)
--Sylvania 6SN7GTB Power Tubes ($35, NOS matched pair)
--Tube adapters ($40 for 4, new)

Sennheiser HD 6XX Headphones ($200, new)

Sanyo DCX-685 Receiver (free, from my dad)
KLH 970A Passive Speakers (free, from my dad) w/ subwoofer from Cyber Acoustics CA-3090 PC speakers ($20)

$1020, built up over a span of about 3 and a half years. I guess it's not really budgetphile anymore, it's somewhere in mid-fi. But that number doesn't take into account the things I've had before this and stopped using or gave away:

BSR 810 Transcription Turntable (free, used)
--Shure M92 Cartridge (free, used)
--Audio Technica AT92ECD Cartridge ($20, new)
Technics SL-D3 Turntable ($100, used)
--Audio Technica AT95e Cartridge ($40, new)
Schiit Fulla USB DAC/Headphone Amp ($70, new)
Koss PRODJ200 Headphones ($120, new)
Audio Technica ATH-M50R Headphones ($100, new open box)
Superlux HD 681 EVO Headphones ($50, new)
Sennheiser HD598 Headphones ($100, new open box)
Voskhod 6ZH1P-EV Driver Tubes ($16, NOS matched pair)
Yugoslavia EI 6HM5 Driver Tubes ($9, NOS matched pair)
Novosibirsk 6H6P-IR Power Tubes ($45, NOS matched pair)

So that's another $670 on stuff I don't even use anymore. Yikes. The most "budgetphile" I ever went was:

BSR 810 Transcription Turntable (free, used)
--Shure M92 Cartirdge (free, used)
Sanyo DCX-685 Receiver (free, from my dad)
--1/8" to stereo RCA cable for PC audio to receiver (free, just had it laying around)
KLH 970A Speakers (free, from my dad)

 

This is my bedroom set up .

Vintage Rega Planar3 £200 - 34 years ago +recent 2M red.
Marantz pm6006.
Project basic phono.
Atlas Integra Interconnects.
Technics ST G 5670L tuner.
Dali Zensor3 on Target stands with QED xt cables.

It sounds great.

 

sl-1200mkii

yamaha - r-95 receiver (model number not sure of)

BIC v-630's. this is my setup i use to record into my computer when i record LP to CD.

i use the speakers to listen when i record, as its fun to hear the albums in their entirety. i don't often have the time, so when i record, i make sure i use those speakers. Those old mid 90's early 2000 V series sure sound good.
I have a pair of t he v830 and v630 our something like that. great lil speakers.

 

I've been enjoying the heck out the 1976 BIC 960 that I recently bought for less than a dinner for two. These turntables are very underrated.

 

my cousin still has his, not as much use these days, ut it still works, and, its well over 40 years old.

the newer incarnations of BIC speakers sound good, but look atrocious.
i have (had both) pairs dv-84 & 64's the tweeters were so bright, but man did they sound great when i cut up s piece of old t-shirt, and taped it over t he tweeter carefully, then they were amazing.
VIFA tweeters in the newer ones. only have the dv64's left, gave away the 84's to my cousin who needed speakers. happy to keep them in the family.

 

Technics SL-Q2 Turntabl;e (purchased used on eBay 6 months ago, works perfectly)
Shure M91E Cartridge.
Yamaha RX-797 Stereo Receiver
Pioneer SP-BS 41 Speakers

 

Set this up in my daughter's room:

Pioneer pm514 turntable with Stanton500 gold cart and Pickering elliptical stylus d-5-e

Arcam alpha 3 amp

Denon/mission speakers

The sound is crystal clear and she loves it! I only paid for the stylus and cart. The amp and turntable were off free cycle and I took the speakers out of the electrical bin at the local dump! True story.

 

Stop now one of the sane people on this forum & a winning system.

 

I’m currently using a Yamaha rx-v490


Good enough for the BIC speakers and recording albums into computer to record to CD.

 

My setup:

Technics SL-1300 with Shure M97XE
Marantz 2238
Polk TSi100 bookshelf speakers

 

Technics SL-1200 MkII
Nagaoka MP-110
Yaqin MS-23B Phono Tube
Schiit Magni 3
JBL LSR 305 + 310s subwoofer (these are set up in a more conventional set-up, not near field. They really sing!)
Senn HD 600 for headphone listening

 

Hi All, this is my first post after a lot of lurking.
What a great forum and knowledge base! well done to all

My very budget system consists of:

Technics SL-BD22 [standard cart soon to be upgraded to Audio-Technica AT85EP]
Sony STR-D590 Receiver

Speakers:
Nordmende LB-450
Mordaunt Short MS05
Ross RE-4500

The room size is approximately 90ft2 [small]

 

Not so much a budget systen more a 1st midlife crisis kinda system!

Rega Planar 3 (2016) with an Exact cart fitted.
Vincent PHO-8 Pre amp.
Cambridge Audio CXA 80 amp.
Dali Zensor 1s speakers.
Apple Mac hooked up to amp for digital input.

In total it's cost around the £2000 mark with cables. Got a substantial discount on speakers & amps on Black Friday from Richersounds.

Puts out a really deep open warm sound. Very happy.

 

Pro-Ject Carbon Debut w/Ortofon Blue
Hagerman Bugle Phono Pre
Yamaha AS500 Amp
Epos Epic 2 Speakers

Probably spent ~$1500 total.

 

Gemini XL-500 II, Little Bear (cheapest one) Tube pre, Ortofon Concord with Om stylus upgrade. Approximate cost $200

 

Sony PS-X50 turntable, $100 from a friend
Signet TK3 cart, free on a table a neighbor gave me
ATN12s stylus, $50 from someone on Audiogon
Technics SU-V6, free from a Craigslist lot, $80 repair made
Dynaco A25 speakers, $15 yard sale

There are other pieces of similar provenance I could swap in there. There's a $100 Thorens in the garage that I need to put new RCAs on, for example.